How to help beggers in India | Should we help beggers

What is begging?

Begging is basically collection of money, food, clothes and other commodities only on the basis of mercy. If we look in history then it can be said that it was the beginning of the era when saints used to beg food and clothes to keep their body and soul together. But nowadays many people get indulge in it and even force other to do so and mostly children are afflicted by such unlawful act.

Situation in India

If we talk about our country then it can be said that our country is not poor but unfortunately maximum number of poor people live in our country. According to a government report in 2012 nearly 22% of our country are living below poverty line. Moreover, India has a 17.5% share in world's population and 20.6% share in world's poorest population in 2011 (Source : Wikipedia). This is due to uneven distribution of money.

Should we help beggers or not?

The question is should we help beggers or not? In my point of view we should help needy poor people. Mark my words I haven't said beggers, I have said needy poor people. Because nowadays many people beg because of their unwillingness to do any work and many of them use money for wrong purpose.

How to help beggers?

You need not to help poor needy person with money instead you can give him food or clothes. And I am a strong supporter of the fact that it will be a great help to someone if you teach him how to catch a fish instead of serving him one. It you can offer a job to needy poor or help him to get one. I assure you that when you help a needy person your self-esteem get strengthen.

We can't say begging is not good. Even many great souls survived by begging like great leader and philosopher Swami Vivekanand who begged for food because he didn't want to indulge in social hypocrisy.

Beggars are considered as burden but they can turned into assets. Government have to launch an easily accessible scheme from root level for beggars in which they can be skilled for some work as PMKVY(Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana) for youngsters. So, I hope you have found that how to help beggers in India and also you have also get the answer to the question should we help beggers or not?

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